A39674:990
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
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Secondly, This Supposition would render the Blood of the Cross altogether unable to satisfy for us. He could not have been the Lamb of God to take away the Sins of the World, if he had not been perfectly pure and spotless, 1 Pet. 1. 19.
Secondly, This Supposition would render the Blood of the Cross altogether unable to satisfie for us. He could not have been the Lamb of God to take away the Sins of the World, if he had not been perfectly pure and spotless, 1 Pet. 1. 19.
Thirdly, Had our Sins thus been essentially transfused into Christ, the Law had had a just and valid Exception against him; for it accepts of nothing but what is absolutely pure and perfect. I admire, therefore, how any good Man dares to call our Doctrine which teaches the Imputation of our Guilt and Punishment to Christ, a simple Doctrine; and assert, that the Transgression it self became Christ's; and that thereby Christ became as completely sinful as we. And,
Thirdly, Had our Sins thus been essentially transfus'd into Christ, the Law had had a just and valid Exception against him; for it accepts of nothing but what is absolutely pure and perfect. I admire, therefore, how any good Man dares to call our Doctrine which teaches the Imputation of our Guilt and Punishment to Christ, a simple Doctrine; and assert, that the Transgression it self became Christ's; and that thereby Christ became as compleatly sinful as we. And,
Fourthly, If the way of making our Sins Christ's by imputation, be thus rejected and derided; and Christ asserted by some other way to become as completely sinful as we; then I cannot see which way to avoid it, but that the very same Acts and Habits of Sin must inhere, both in Christ, and in Believers also. For, I suppose our Adversaries will not deny that, notwithstanding God's laying the Sins of Believers upon Christ, there remain in all Believers after their Justification, sinful Inclinations and Aversations; a Law of Sin in their Members, a Body of Sin and Death. Did these things pass from them to Christ, and yet do they still inhere in them? Why do they complain and groan of in-dwelling Sin? as